Plant for drawing, quenching, and conveying coke.



No. 819,899. PATENTBD M. Y S. EN".

H. E. MANN. PT ANT FOB. DRAWING, QUENGHING, AND CONVEYING COKE.

APPLCATION FILED OOT.6, 19054 I l.. f C

No. 319,899. PATENTED MAY 8, 1906.

H. E. MANN.

PLANT FON DRAWING, QUBNGHIN G, AND CONVEYING COKE.

APPLIOATION FILED 00T.6. 1905` 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2 @www UNITED sfrArEs PATENT OFFICEc HOWARD E. MANN, iOli" CLEVELAND, OHIO.

PLANT FOR DRAWING, QUENCHING, AND CONVEYING COKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 8, 1906.

Application OCiOlJEl 6, 1905- Seriti N0. 281|83- To a/ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I., HOWARD E. MANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Plants for Drawing, Quenching, and Conveying Coke, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had 'to the accompanying drawings.

The object of the present invention is to so arrange and equip coke-ovens or gas-retorts that the coke may be drawn and handled in a manner which shall secure the most uniform results and insure the delivery of the coke to the screens in suitable condition.

Another object sought by me is to so arran e and order the apparatus for and met od of handling the coke between the ovens and the screens that the present expensive Wear and tear on the apparatus cmployed shall be avoided, and this be accomplished without an large expense in the matter of newinstal ation.

These-and other objects will appear from the detailedj description of the plant and method employed, as set forth in the succeeding portion of-ithe specification.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents an end elevation, partly in section and partly broken away, showing the end of a retort-bench with a conveying system therebeneath and an intermediate quenching and retaining chute. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the top of the quenching and retaining chute, taken just above the spraypipe in Fig. l; Fig. 3 is a plan indicating the general arrangement of the plant.

As will be'seen by reference to Figs. 1 and 3, I have provided beneath each vertical series of retorts A A A and close to the furnacein sufficiently closet'o the furnace to use t ns latter form of chute. In the top of the chute lfor a second discharge.

around the entrance I have provided sprayl ing devices B3 B3, consisting of eithera singleV continuous perforated pipe of the form shown or some other convenient and similar structure. As above ointed out and as will be seen by referencfto Figs. 1 and 3, the chutes are of suchA dimension and so arranged thatone is located beneath each vertical series of retorts, and, as shown in Figs.

1 and 2 of the drawings, each chute is from three to four times as long as it is wide.

From these facts it is evident that the charge of coke drawn from eachvertical series will be confined in a vertical column in such manner that when the water is sprayed into they upper end of the chutes and passes -to the lower' end thereof the cloud of steamV generated by the con tact of the hot coke therewith will rise through the entire mass of coke in the column. Beneath the delivery ends of the series of chutes and encircling the ovens I provide an endless railway C, referablI operated by cable C: The style o car whic I use in the conveying System is one provided with a centrally-ridged floor C and swinging gates C* on the sides. These cars C -C5 are in my system capable of being constructed with wooden bodies, a fact which reduces the expense of installation to about one-sixth of that which it would cost otherwise.

I so arrange the plant that the cars may be run .under the several chutes and receive the quenched coke as soon as it is cool and dry enough for the screens. T he )lant is so operated that each chute is freed from its burden before the retorts which feed it lare ready The cars travel from the retort-house through the yard and over screens D, where the eolie is dumped, and thence along the endless-track into the retort-house, traveling in thel saine direction as before.

In the operation of a plant arranged as that described the coke is drawn from the retorts and allowed to fall onto the floor of the retort-house,whence it can be easily shoveled into the receiving-chutes. Before the coke is charged into the chute the door B2 at the lower end thereof is closed and secured and the spray B at the upper end is turned on. As the white hot coke falls past the spray it is saturated with water and falls to the lower end of the chute and is retained therein, the water meanwhile being continually sprayed IOO ITO

are kept wet from the be thereon, quenchin the entire mass and Wetting the4 metal wal s of the chute. Clouds of steam are generated by this action which ass up through the coke column, serving to rther ,quench and cool the upper layers of the charge. The quenching and cooling effect of these clouds of steam is of prime importance, since, owing to the long Anarrow structure ofchute employed by me, the coke is confined to a column through which the clouds of steam are forced to pass, thus effecting a quenching which it is imposible to obtain in the troughs heretofore employed Where the coke is allowed to fall out into a thin shallow layer. In this old form of quenching-trou h the steam arising from the coke immediate y passes into the open space above and is drawn off by the suction ap aratus usually connected therewith, and t us is not utilized as a cooling-current for effectively and thoroughly'quenching the coke, as is done in the applicants apparatus. The only way in which coke spread out in thin .shallow layers can be effectively quenched so as to be sufficiently coolto be drawn into wooden cars is by drownin the same with water, which renders it'un t for screening. Owing to the-fact that the walls of the chute ning and the fact that the coke is sprayed y the 'water before it strikes the walls, it has been found that practically no corroding action takes lace and the walls do not become heated. l en the chute is filled, the water spray is turned off and the charge allowed to remain therein until properly cooled and dried, which in most casesoccurs within two hours. Such. Water asis not evaporated by the heat of the coke and converted into steam trickles out of the lower end of the chute, owing to the fact that the door is not absolutely water-tight, and drains away from the coke, leaving it in sufficiently dry condition to be screened.

lWhen this condition has been reached, the

door of the chute is opened and the coke allowed to fall into the wooden cars on the Y cable-road therebeneath. Each car is preferably of a size adapted to hold the charge drawn from at least one bench of retorts. The dried coke is thereupon conveyed out of the retort-house ,to the screens,`where it is dumped by releasing the side Walls of the cars after the manner well known, whereupon the car is' returned to the retort-'house to take its turn in the routine.

Heretofore the white hot coke has been drawn from the ovensand dumped directl into buggies, which were of necessity of meta since no combustible or even semicombustible material could possibly withstand the Wear or the heat. The metal buggies themselves have, however, not been able to withstand corrosion and become worn out in a remarkably short While. This corrosion is further increased bythe fact that the practica has been to quench the coke in the open buggies themselves, usually by means of a hoseoperated by the workman, which practice is attendedA by considerable oxidation. vIt is practically impossible for the' workman ordinarily to quench vthe coke in any manner prevent the corrosion and pitting to operation and deterioration, under the old system. Furthermore, by my system the coke is retained in such a manner that it is drained and 'dried to the eXact condition suitable for screening before it is delivered to tlel sceens, an achievement not hitherto posy s1 e.

A very marked advanta e of my arrangement is the elimination of t e drippm s of tar and the clouds of steam from the loa mg and conveying room; These two factors have hitherto made it difficult to secure workmen willing to perform the Work of loading the .bug 'es and quenching the coke therein. In a p ant equi ped according there are no diippingsI pernntted to fall upon lthe floor, and the steam generated on the quenching of the coke passes up within the confines of the chute and out through a perforated door at the top. On account of lthe proximity of the mouths of Athe chute to the ot retorts the steam rises vertically along the walls of the benches and is caught by the draft leading to the ventilators above, thus passing out of the room without-inconvenlence-to 'any of the workmen. Further, it has been found that coke drawn, quenched, and handled in the manner described is ve hard and almost white, being much less fr1-A able than' the ordinary coke, and therefore more desirable for commercial reasons.

As pointed outabove', the arrangementof plant is equally applicable to gas-retorts or coke-retorts, it being immaterial whether the sole product is coke or not so lon as the coke drawn from the retorts is handle in the manj ner described.

Having thus described my invention, -I claimto my system. A

1. A plant comprisin 'a seriesof coke o r gas retorts, a series of c utes under said retorts, means for supplyin Water so thatl it may pass to the bottom o said chutes, said chutesbeing adapted to receive the char e of coke drawn from the adjacent series of retorts and bein Aof such size and proportion as to hold the co e in a column and to conne A the steam generated from water passing to the bottom thereof to cause it to rise through the column of coke.

2. A plant comprisin a series of coke or gas retorts, a series of c utes under said retorts, means for supplying Water to said chutes so that it may pass to the bottom thereof, said chutes being adapted to hold the coke char e from the adjacent series 'of retorts in a co umn and to confine the steam generated from the Water passing to the bottom thereof to cause it to rise through the column of coke, and a closure for the lower end of the chutes adapted to permit a slow drain of Water therefrom.

'3. A plant comprising a series of coke or gas retortsI a series of chutes beneath said series of retortsI each chute vbeing adapted to receive the charge of coke drawn from the adjacent retort and having a long narrow bod)r With an angular inclination below the mouth,

and a Water-supply at the mouth adapted to spray water into the interior of the retort.

4. A plant comprising a series of coke or' gas retorts, 'a series of chutes beneath said series of retorts, Water-supplying means for said chutes, a screen, a conveying system be` neathsaid chutes and alongside the screen, each of said chutes being constructed to hold the charge of coke from the adjacent retorts in a long colunm and to permit Water to ass from sald water-su ply to the bottom o the chute and to co e the steam generated thlerefromV so as to rise through the column of co e.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my" 

